Tim: >> I have an Asus PRO31J F3JC laptop with a Ricoh SD card reader that >> Fedora is slightly aware that it's in the computer, but doesn't actually >> do anything with it. David Timms: > Is today F7 ? Updated ? Today is Sunday... ;-) But yes, I'm running FC7, and have been so for quite some time, and it has current packages installed, but no development ones. I'm a bit loathe to do that. > The text info IINM comes pci.ids provided by hwinfo. On my F7 system > that is: > hwdata-0.200-1.fc7 > Build Date: Tue 10 Apr 2007 Same as what I have. > yum --enablerepo=development list hwdata > shows: > hwdata.noarch 0.207-1.fc8 development > > You might be able to get at least the correct message by updating to the > soon to be F8 version. This doesn't try to bring in any other files. > > But I have an idea that udev / hal ? provide the actual mappings... I'd like to hear if anybody else suggests to do the same thing, as well, before I install something from development. But I wonder if just identifying the part is going to be enough to make use of it. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
